Song Yan
Professor
Jacobs University
Germany
Biography
Song YAN is a Professor of Psychology at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and is a member of the Research Center “CoWell: Cognition and Decision, Values & Well Beingâ€. She has expertise in cross-cultural research of psychological behaviors and processes. Her work has focused on how cultures differ in their concepts and beliefs regarding happiness, and how the perception of happiness or Subjective Well-Being (SWB) is shaped by cultural traditions. Song Yan has given various lectures and presentations on the theme of the psychology of happiness. She has acted as a consultant to companies and organizations utilizing happiness as a leadership concept.
Research Interest
Leadership, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, International (cross-cultural) management.